How do you use a dropdown menu to enter data in mult. cells exce?

J

John Baylis

I am trying to use a dropdown selection in excel to pull data from a list on
another work sheet to fill in multiple cells.
 
T

Toppers

If by dropdown you mean Data Validation, then name the range e.g. myrange, on
your other worksheet and in Data Validation select

Allow: List
Source : =myrange

HTH
 
G

Gord Dibben

John

Use Data Validation for in-cell drop-down for selecting an item and VLOOKUP
for filling in the other cells.

See Debra Dalgleish's site for more on VLOOKUP and Data
Validation lists for entering the choices.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlFunctions02.html

http://www.contextures.on.ca/xlDataVal01.html

Note the section on using DV lists from another worksheet by naming the list.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 02:20:00 -0800, John Baylis <John
 
J

John Baylis

Thank you. The combination of Data Validation and the Vlookup fuction solved
my problem. John
 
J

John Baylis

Thank you. The combination of Data Validation and the Vlookup fuction solved
my problem. John
 
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